The last time Jonah Bolden played college basketball, he had one of the worst seasons statswise among the 2017 NBA Draft class. Bolden, the Bruins’ former guard/forward, averaged just 2.4 more points and 2.5 more rebounds per game in his collegiate career than LaVar Ball, who’s widely mocked in the basketball community for his uninspiring […]
Author Archives: Hanson Wang
Wang’s Word: NBA superteams should not be condemned for dominating playoff games
My finals week starts Thursday. While most students are at least a week away from hunkering down at 24-hour Powell or chugging cups of coffee that make 7-Eleven’s Big Gulps look like shot glasses, I’ll be sacrificing sleep and my grades to watch the “three-match” between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers in […]
UCLA men’s and women’s tennis end season with NCAA Tournament losses
After losing in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament last season, UCLA men’s tennis claimed the individual singles and doubles titles. This year, there would be no repeat. Junior Martin Redlicki and freshman Evan Zhu, the No. 2-seeded pair in the 32-team bracket, lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual champions, unseeded Andrew Harris and […]
Despite setbacks, men’s tennis ends season with success, high hopes
UCLA men’s tennis coach Billy Martin has said all year that his team was scrappy. The Georgia and USC matches in the first month of the season both came down to the final courts, and UCLA managed to squeak out both wins. During the year, they defeated eight top-25 teams and finished conference play undefeated. […]
Rain delay causes men’s tennis to lose focus, drop NCAA quarterfinal
ATHENS, Ga. — Junior Austin Rapp felt the first rain drops right before his opponent served on match point, and he walked off the court with the match still unfinished. What had started as a 30-minute lightning stoppage in the NCAA quarterfinal Saturday night turned into a five-hour rain delay characterized by torrential downpour, turbulent […]
Men’s tennis falls to Georgia, eliminated in NCAA quarterfinal
ATHENS, Ga. — The rain, the five-hour delay and the pressure. In the end, it was too much for UCLA men’s tennis to handle. The No. 5-seeded Bruins (22-6) lost 4-2 to the host, the No. 13-seeded Georgia Bulldogs (22-7) Saturday night, ending UCLA’s NCAA Tournament run in the quarterfinal for the second consecutive year. […]
Men’s tennis defeats Texas A&M, advances to NCAA quarterfinal
ATHENS, Georgia — Maxime Cressy had five chances to close out his match against Texas A&M’s Valentin Vacherot. He needed all of them. The sophomore’s first four match points all came on Vacherot’s serve, but the Aggie freshman denied him each time, behind a flurry of service winners and forehand winners. On Cressy’s next match […]